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EMDR

What is EMDR?

EMDR, as with most therapy approaches, focuses on the individual’s present concerns. The EMDR approach believes past emotionally-charged experiences are overly influencing your present emotions, sensations, and thoughts about yourself. As an example: “Do you ever feel worthless although you know you are a worthwhile person?”

EMDR uses rapid sets of eye
movements to help you update
disturbing experiences, much like what
occurs when we sleep. During sleep, we
alternate between regular sleep and
REM (rapid eye movement). This sleep
pattern helps you process things that are
troubling you.

EMDR replicates this sleep pattern by
alternating between sets of eye
movements and brief reports about
what you are noticing. This alternating
process helps you update your
memories to a healthier present
perspective.

EMDR uses a set of procedures to
organize your negative and positive
feelings, emotions, and thoughts,
and then uses bilateral stimulation,
such as eye movements or
alternating tapping, as the way to
help you effectively work through
those disturbing memories.
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It is not necessary to talk about all
the details of your experiences for
them to be processed

Emotions and
sensations may come up during
processing; I will prepare you will for this, and I will help
you safely manage them. Once they
are processed, they rarely come back!

EMDR is not like hypnosis. During EMDR processing, you
are present and fully in control